Serene, beautiful - Chimmony wildlife sanctuary located in the Western Ghats, is one of the world’s 25 bio-diversity hot-spots, the haven of innumerable species of endangered plants and animals.

The total area of this wild life sanctuary considered as a global mega-diversity zone comprising several local species of living organisms and virgin forests come to around 85.067 km² including the Chimmeney Lake.

Set up in 1984, this sanctuary forms part of the Mukundapuram Taluk of Thrissur District. The distance is 60 km from the Kochi International Airport and 36 km from Thrissur town. It comes under the Peechi Wild Life Division.

Immensely blessed by nature, this protected area which is an integral part of the Western Ghats comprises steep mountain ranges having a height of 40 to 1116 m from the sea level.

The sanctuary coming under the watershed zone of the Chimmony Lake and surrounded by the mountain ranges in the western slopes of the Nelliyampathy hills are rich with several rivers and jungle streams.

The main mountain peaks of this sanctuary are Pindi Mudi (1116 m) and Ponmudi (928 m). The South-East borders have abundance of green forests coming under the Chalakudi-Vazhachaal Forest Division.

The forest area of the sanctuary is categorized into:

West Coast tropical evergreen forest,

West Coast semi-evergreen forest and

Southern Indian moist deciduous forest.

50% of the forests come under moist deciduous category, and 25% under semi-ever green category.

Chimmony Dam is situated in Echippara in Mukundapuram taluk of Thrissur District of Kerala state of India. The dam was completed in 1996. It is constructed across Chimoni river, a tributary of Karuvannur river.Chimmony is the largest dam of Thrissur district